Practical Teams: App Management In Microsoft 365
In this installment of Practical Teams, we explain what App-Centric Management is, how Integrated Apps work, and how Unified App Management differs from earlier methods.
July 16, 2025
Teams Channels Get Threaded Layout
Many Teams users love to use group chats as a way to get work done. Group chats are effective, but the information shared in chats ends up in personal OneDrive accounts. To help switch people back to channel conversations, Teams has a new threaded layout to make conversations behave much like chats. The new layout works well for some channels but not for others.
July 15, 2025
Analyzing Copilot’s Zero-Day, M365 Local & Copilot Agents: Practical 365 Podcast S4 E41
In this Episode of the Practical 365 podcast, Steve and Paul deep dive into the Microsoft 365 Copilot exploit, "Echo Leak," discussing its implications for AI safeguards and the future of agentic AI. The conversation then shifts to a recent global outage affecting Google and Cloudflare, highlighting the challenges of maintaining hyperscale services. We also examine Microsoft's new initiative to offer containerized M365 instances in Europe, addressing concerns over data sovereignty. Finally, they discuss the latest advancements in Copilot agents, emphasizing the importance of understanding AI reasoning.
July 14, 2025
Investigating Mailbox Breaches with the Graph Activity Log
In this article, we guide you through the process of using the Graph Activity Log and Kusto Query Language (KQL) to hunt for common indicators of mailbox compromise, with useful tips along the way.
July 9, 2025
Practical Graph: Tracking Critical App Actions Through Audit Events
App management audit events are captured when changes are made to Entra registered and enterprise apps. Critical app management audit events should be closely monitored to ensure that permissions are used properly and attackers haven't attempted to penetrate the tenant to extract data. This article explains how to find and analyze audit data for some critical app management audit events and run the code as an Azure Automation runbook.
July 8, 2025
Practical Protection: Power Platform Environment Security
In this episode of Practical Protection, we explore securing Power Platform environments, covering the basics of environment isolation, governance strategies, and lifecycle management.
July 7, 2025
How to Keep Defender Up to Date
Updating Defender for Endpoint is quite complex, as the process differs between each operating system, and not all updates are alike. In this blog, we explore how to manage updates effectively on each platform, with practical tips throughout.
July 1, 2025
Practical Graph: Assigning Sensitivity Labels to SharePoint Files with the PowerShell SDK
A new Set-MgDriveItemSensitivityLabel cmdlet makes it easier to assign sensitivity labels in PowerShell scripts. However, the cmdlet does not get around the restriction imposed by Microsoft on using metered APIs. Apps still must be registered as Azure resources before scripts can run the cmdlet. It's easy to understand why, even if it seems strange at first.
June 30, 2025
A Microsoft 365 Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide to Copilot Studio
There's a lot to learn about Copilot Studio, especially for hard-pressed Microsoft 365 tenant administrators who already have too much work to do. This article gives administrators the essential details that they should consider as Copilot agents become more interesting to their organization.
June 25, 2025
Automatically Generate Maester Tests for Conditional Access
In this blog, we dive into Jasper Baes' Conditional Access Validator, open-source PowerShell tool that automatically generates Maester tests for Conditional Access.
June 24, 2025
Practical Graph: Finding Owners for Ownerless Apps from Audit Data
When administrators create new Entra ID apps, the apps don't have an owner unless an owner is explicitly assigned. The net result is that a tenant can end up with many ownerless apps. In this article, we explain how to find ownerless apps, and how to use audit data to find suitable owners for those apps. All done with PowerShell, of course.
June 23, 2025
Practical Graph: Using PowerShell to Create and Run eDiscovery Cases
The new Purview eDiscovery implementation supports a Graph API. Where there's a Graph API, there are PowerShell cmdlets based on the API. This article explains how to use PowerShell to automate different aspects of eDiscovery cases. PowerShell can't review the items found by searches, but it can handle most of the other processing.
June 18, 2025
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